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Show 125 to stop his vehicle, he drove on through and began circling the block. "Stop this damn thing! " he shouted to the mechanics each time he went by, but they could neither understand him nor catch up to him. Finally the car ran out of gas and stopped of its own volition. Pete Lott, Emmy's father, had similar trouble. His leaped the ditch, mowed down the picket fence and was about to enter the parlor when it coughed and died. John Dunn's remedy when his wouldn't pull was to "throw her intermedgin. " Many another man not only didn't quit swearing, but added a few choice words to his vocabulary. Papa paid his tithing, though, the best tenth of everything he had, and was promoted in the Priesthood. It should have been no surprise to Mama when he asked her if she could be ready to go to the temple by the fourteenth of June. She could, and she was. This was June 11J Rachel was the baby, of course, and Mama made white clothes for all of us. Sister Jackman was hired to help her get ready and went along to tend us children until such time as we were to enter the temple for the ceremony. Mama was terrified there would be some slip-up, that her long dream would not come true. Needless to say, the Devil was pulling in that direction. With time of the essence, we naturally hadn't gotten any farther than Richfield, a third of the way or less when we had a beaut of a blow-out. The whole tire was ruined. The tube ruptured with a report like that of a gun. It was the days of "get out and get under", with every man his own mechanic. Papa and Eldon |